Our Slog (Ships Log) with a Satelite View

Sheila, Sherrell and I all stood patiently on the side of a dusty highwayat 7 am waiting hopefully for a bus. Life is sometimes surreal. We toldthe port captain that we needed to catch the bus to La Paz (in our brokenSpanish) and he called the bus office in Loreto where the station is torequest that the driver on such and such day look for us at this juntionand pick us up. Often these things work better than you might expect. But when you haul all your junk 2 miles out into the dusty unknown slowlybaking in the morning sun, you have to wonder if your Spanish skills werereally up to the task. Perhaps somewhere there was a taxi driver circlingaround looking for us, or maybe they are trying to deliver a pizza to us.

I`m pretty sure the port captain told us to make sure we were there before8am in case the bus was early. And I`m pretty sure we got the day andplace right. But an hour later we were getting hot and beginning towonder.

Just as we were discussing what time we should give up waiting, the bigfancy bus rolled up the hill, pulled over, and picked up Sheila andSherrell and off they went.

I had previously arranged to go hiking into the Arroyo (canyon) nearbywith another couple. They wanted to go eary, 6am. But they still hadn`tshown. I figured they bailed, but halfway back to the waterfront theyappeared, and we got to hiking.

The arroyo was a deep cut inside massive steep mounts called the Giants. It was filled with carved rocks, trees, birds and a few pools of water. As we climbed further up into the arroyo we had to climb through rockcaves and caverns that we could barely fit our bodies through. We keptclimbing until we reached an impass. It was hot and we didn`t feel likeexerting oursleves climbing the next set of cliff like boulders. So wejust took in the view.

Reddish rocks, green trees and lots of birds (humming birds, bright redcardnals) were all over the place. Sometime when we find a place to hookup the computer we`ll get them posted!

For now, though, Sherrell will be back tomorrow and Sheila will be at homein Seattle. We plan to head further north and enjoy some island time!